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Friday, April 30, 2010

As is my custom, this morning I asked Zoia (the bot in #code4lib) for this day in history from the Computer History Musuem. Lately I’ve been filtering it through the Pirate plugin, which transforms arbitrary text into something a pirate might say. Anyhow, today’s was pretty humorous. 11:32 < edsu> @pirate [tdih] 11:32 < zoia> [...]

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history and genealogy at semwebdc

Monday, March 22, 2010

spine CC BY 2.0 Last week’s Washington DC Semantic Web Meetup focused on History and Genealogy Semantics. It was a pretty small, friendly crowd (about 15-20) that met for the first time at the Library of Congress. The group included folks from PBS, the National Archives, the Library of Congress, and the Center for History [...]

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Documents

Thursday, September 10, 2009

I’ve struggled in the past with what constitutes an Information Resource in the context of Web Architecture, Linked Data and practical digital library applications such as the National Digital Newspaper Project I work on at the Library of Congress. So it was reassuring to see the issue come up a few months ago during a [...]

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American Memory is (almost) 20

Wednesday, July 8, 2009

Through an internal discussion list at the Library of Congress I learned that this year will mark the 20th Anniversary of American Memory. The exact date of the anniversary depends on how you want to mark it: either the beginning of FY90 on October 1st, 1999 1989 (thanks David) when work officially began, or earlier [...]

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